Rodyk & Davidson

Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP is Singapore's fourth largest law firm by headcount, with over 230[1] lawyers who are qualified in various jurisdictions such as those of Singapore, Australia, England and Wales and India, and with offices in Singapore and Myanmar. It traces its beginnings to the partnership of Woods & Davidson, founded by Robert Carr Woods and James Guthrie Davidson in 1861. After the death of Woods, Bernard Rodyk joined Davidson in 1877. The firm was renamed Rodyk & Davidson.

Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP
HeadquartersSingapore
No. of offices2
No. of lawyers230
No. of employees450
Major practice areasCorporate, Finance, Intellectual Property & Technology, Litigation & Arbitration, and Real Estate
Key peoplePhilip Jeyaretnam SC (Managing Partner)
Date founded1861
FounderRobert Carr Woods; James Guthrie Davidson
Company typeLimited liability partnership
Websitewww.dentons.rodyk.com

The firm is Singapore's first and oldest law practice and celebrated its 150th year as one of Singapore's largest full service law firms in 2011.[2] The firm was the first foreign law office to be granted a license for Shanghai and established its Shanghai office in 1996.

They practice in corporate, finance, intellectual property & technology, litigation & arbitration, and real estate with specialist practices in competition and maritime law.

The firm is the sole Singapore member of the World Law Group[3] and the Pacific Rim Advisory Council,[4] both global legal networks.

History

The firm is registered under the Limited Liability Partnership Act, on and from April 2007.

In 2016, the firm integrated with global law firm Dentons and was renamed Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP.

Main Practice Groups

The firm specialises in the following areas:

gollark: But unless you have an *actual security reason* I would disagree with that.
gollark: > This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused,That's the use I was talking about, I guess, but not always relevant.
gollark: 10.4.5 404 Not Found The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address. This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or when no other response is applicable.
gollark: I can't ctrl+F that in RFC 2616.
gollark: It's one of those necessary-evil things if you have some security reason. Otherwise no.

References
  1. "Rodyk & Davidson's The Legal 500 profile". The Legal 500 > Rodyk & Davidson LLP > Singapore > What the firm says. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
  2. "Rodyk & Davidson LLP: Lawyers, Advocates & Solicitors". Rodyk.com. 2012. Retrieved 2014-02-07.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2020-06-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Pacific Rim Advisory Council". Prac.org. Retrieved 2010-08-23.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.